Yecheng County, belonging to Kashgar Region of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as of the end of 2021, Yecheng County is under the jurisdiction of 6 towns, 15 townships, 5 area management committees, as well as 3 fields. The administrative area covers 28,370,000 square kilometers. As of the end of 2020, Yecheng County has a total population of 550,400 people, inhabited by 13 ethnic distributions including Uyghur, Han, Kazakh, Hui, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tajik, Russian, and Uzbek, of which Uyghur accounts for 93%, Han 6%, and other ethnic minorities 1%.
Yecheng County, located in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is more than 1,500 kilometers away from the capital Urumqi and 260 kilometers away from Kashgar City. With the Karakoram and Kunlun Mountains in the south, the open plains in the north, the Taklamakan Desert in the immediate vicinity, and the upper reaches of the Yarkant River, the terrain is high in the south and low in the north. It shares a border with Pakistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir, and the border is more than 80 kilometers long. The cultivated area is 1.13 million mu. It is an agriculture-based, agriculture and animal husbandry combination of agricultural counties, but also the western border of China's military town and the national poverty alleviation and development of key counties and border counties. In November 2020, Yecheng County was lifted out of poverty and withdrawn from the poverty-stricken county.
Yecheng County is short for Yarkant, and the county is named after the Yarkant River. Yarkant is a Turkic language, according to the "Western Region Watercourse Records", interpreted as "wide land", said to mean "the city on the cliff", the local rumors of "this place is hospitable". Uyghur language called Kaghalek, "Western Region Atlas" for Halgarik, "Xinjiang Knowledge Strategy" for Halharik. There are other names such as Haragarik and Haharik. West with the text Zhi" explanation: "Hui language. The land is full of forests and trees, the group of crows nesting, that is, all to name its place."
In 2019, Yecheng County's gross regional product was 9993.9 million yuan, the added value of the primary industry was 359.272 million yuan, the added value of the secondary industry was 1,641.63 million yuan, the general public budget revenue was 527.04 million yuan, and the general public budget expenditure was 906.7 million yuan.